Feeling lucky

vrabia:

what-even-is-thiss:

With almost everything on earth there’s someone that’s dedicated their entire lives to it either through hobby or career and I’m so glad that there’s someone thinking about everything.

I’m glad that there’s people that travel around Tokyo taking pictures of trains and I’m glad that there’s people that design printers and I’m stoked that people like hiking down abandoned trails and reading old scientific texts from 400 bce. It’s cool. I’ve got my own corners of stuff I like. I hope I’m adding to something when I read ancient literature. If nothing else it makes me feel connected to everyone else with really specific interests.

there’s a guy on youtube who really likes romanian trains. he’s got hundreds of videos spanning 14 years of trainspotting and rearview rides in old and shabby trains on old and shabby 60-year-old rails. i (who also like romanian trains but i’m not like, passionate about them) thought it was a really cool hobby to have…….and then i found a full 4-hour rearview of the route to my grandparents’ village. the one i took every summer from birth into my 20s. every tiny little stop is nearly time-stamped and in-between there’s every river and bridge crossing and power station, every old silo and derelict water tower somehow still standing, and i remember all of it.

sometimes i let the video run in the background while working because i like the sounds (there’s no music like in similar videos from other channels and i’m very nostalgic about those sounds). a few times when i was at my lowest from depression and insomnia, i’d just stay in bed and watch all 4 uninterrupted hours of it. and i got to have this odd source of comfort in some of the worst moments of my life because one guy has a youtube channel, a gopro and a really cool hobby.

everythingfox:

The best doggy

crazy-pages:

greia:

himbofisher:

KID WATCHING THE VIDEO: This guy’s not not tied to his rope… this - dude, this guy’s crazy, does he have a death wish or somethin’? Oh my gosh! Doesn’t he have like a wife and kids at home???

[parachute opens up to reveal it is rainbow]

KID, IN EXACT SAME TONE: Doesn’t he have a husband and kids at home???

I remember the first time I saw this video. When it hit me, like a weight slamming into my whole chest, that this was going to be normal for kids now. When I was his age, I couldn’t have imagined people being so casual about this. When I was his age men couldn’t have husbands in the eyes of the law!

We have a whole generation growing up which says his husband and her wife with utter casualness. Which uses they/them and neo pronouns, and doesn’t even bother to wonder about the gender of a “partner”.

Happy pride everybody.

metalgeara-10ciiscorpionhmcs:

metalgeara-10ciiscorpionhmcs:

I love seeing list memes where someone makes a “le cool people vs le cringe” and they obviously skew it so they barely scrape by into the cool kids club

You just KNOW this dudes 5'11"

beemovieerotica:

in-a-mellow-tone:

in-a-mellow-tone:

in-a-mellow-tone:

Fuck it, post lamb stew slow cooker recipe

How high was I last night?

How much lamb stew did I want to make??

1,814¾ lbs of Lamb????

>960 cups beef broth
>2 bay leaves

the unfathomable power of bay leaf

as-the-jay-flies:

korrasera:

manypersons:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

In case anyone isn’t aware, connections like that are literally called ‘illegal’ techniques in LEGO parlance.

Illegal building techniques are ones that aren’t allowed in official LEGO sets, which always use building techniques designed for and intended by LEGO. The reason they’re called illegal is because they stress the blocks in a way they weren’t intended for, causing various kinds of material failure overtime.

As an example, the blocks in the example above slowly deform over time because, slowly warping until they don’t connect very well to other blocks or each other.

swordshapedleaves:

wineyrose:

cockmcstuffins:

bella was lucky she didn’t have a cell phone of any kind because you know ya boi edward would be blowing up that phone 24-7 going “saw a snail today…. effervescent” or some shit equivalent

happy 3 yr anniversary to the post that singlehandedly launched the twilight renaissance

Happy 5 year anniversary to the effervescent snail post

pangur-and-grim:

just had the weirdest interaction. this off-leash Yorkshire Terrier wobbled up to sniff my ankle, and then its owner said “the vet wanted to euthanize her”

and I was like “……oh”

and she said “4 years ago. she had a stroke, but I went to church and prayed to the Virgin Mary, and now she can walk again. but sometimes she drops, which is why I have this stroller”

and I was like “oh, okay.” I didn’t know what to say after that, so I was just like “it’s a cool dog” and kept walking

weaver-z:

weaver-z:

There are some elderly people near me in this restaurant and two of them started talking about their trans nephew really affectionately… maybe there is good in this world……

One of the old women was joking about how she “just can’t figure out what he’s gonna do next!” because her nephew is “so energetic.” The man she’s with was talking about how confident he is on testosterone compared to how “depressed and introverted” he was before “getting on the stuff.” I love this so much. Shout out to supportive old people.

wingittoodles:

gallusrostromegalus:

teaboot:

reve-nant:

punished-banderite:

theinformationcollector:

TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people

via reddit.com

okay but the BEST part of the first study discussed (conducted by an autistic person!) Is that it shows that while easy, calm, mutual communication and social interaction is often more natural between two autistic people than it is between an autistic person and a non-autistic person, it is ALSO like this when an autistic person encounters a non-autistic person who imitates the autistic individual’s behaviours- neurotypical parents copying autistic children’s play, for example, apparently receive more positive engagement from their child- which is SERIOUSLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and VERY VERY GOOD because it is, once again, scientific evidence that bullshit like aversion therapy and enforced conformance and FUCKING “quiet hands” aren’t “”“”“solutions to the autism problem”“”“” and that “”“”“problems”“”“ with autism don’t stem from BEING autistic, but rather, from how NON AUSTISTIC PEOPLE TREAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.

IE, once again, there is nothing bad or wrong about being autistic

As my mom put it when she got sick of listening to acquaintance “A” whine about how autistic person “B” they both knew ‘really lacks communication skills’ and ‘doesn’t really understand other people’ (B has excellent but specific communication skills, and merely refuses to engage in ‘polite’ but ultimately unhelpful social behavior), and how frustrating it was for A, as a ‘professional communications advisior’ and self-described empath, to work with B:

“Well if YOU’RE so goddamn good at communication and empathy, why don’t YOU learn to how to communicate and empathize with HER instead?”

#My theory is that the Non-autistic people who whine the most about autistic communication#Are ALSO people with terrible terrible communication skills in general#who rely heavily on a lot of the ‘polite’ behaviors of non-autists to carry the conversation like ‘making educated guesses on what you mean#and ‘ignoring rude offand comments in favor of finishing this conversation’#whether they’re aware of it or not#and when they meet an autistic person who doesn’t do those conversation-carrying behaviors in favor of conversational clarity#it’s really frustrating for the low-skills person to suddenly have to pick up the conversational slack#And you get people like A who project their communication insecurites onto the Autistic and ND people around them#Instead of like#actually adjusting their communication styles or learning new skills

nono youre right dont hide